You’d be hard-pressed to find another film from last year—or even the last few years—that’s as disgusting, rude, politically incorrect and offensive as Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. But we’re willing to bet that you wouldn’t be able to think of one that’s even remotely as funny either.

And you thought your family had problems. It’s the 10th century and the royal family of the Tang Dynasty is tearing itself apart. Emperor Ping (Chow Yun Fat, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has been slowly poisoning his second wife Empress Phoenix (Gong Li, Memoirs of a Geisha). The Empress, however, hasn’t exactly been saintly herself—having an illicit affair with her stepson, the Emperor’s eldest son Prince Wan (Liu Ye, The Promise).

Amanda (Cameron Diaz, In Her Shoes) is a neurotic movie trailer maker who can’t cry (no matter how much she tries) and has a track record of sabotaging all her relationships. Iris (Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) is a weepy, emotional wreck who’s been pining over the same man (Rufus Sewell, Tristan + Isolde) for the last three years. Fed up with their own guy problems, the pair decides to swap houses for the holidays. It’s on their respective vacations, however, that they each find the man of their dreams.

It doesn’t matter what gender or sexuality you are, whether you are rich or poor, white or black, saint or sinner—AIDS can affect you. Writer/director of 3 Needles Thom Fitzgerald (The Event) assumes this unbiased perspective on the part of his audience and takes the issue a step further to show the devastating effects that AIDS has not just on the person who is infected, but on the people around him or her as well.

“Saw III,” the latest installment in this popular and sadistic series, is easily the goriest. But blood and guts aside, the film falters towards the end, and is a fairly disappointing sequel. Everyone’s favorite maniacal mastermind John Kramer, a.k.a. Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), is back—and he’s dying. Suffering from a quickly degenerating condition, Jigsaw’s only wish is to see his latest victim, the grief-stricken Jeff (Angus Macfayden), make it through a series of torturous tests. So, he has his equally kooky assistant Amanda (Shawnee Smith) kidnap gifted doctor Lynn Denlon (Bahar Soomekh).

It’s 1944 and Spain’s currently under the rule of a fascist regime. Not exactly the best place for the young, imaginative and inquisitive Ofelia (Ivana Baquero, Fragile) to grow up, but right in the middle of this horrible world is where she finds herself after her mother Carmen (Ariadna Gil, The Absent) moves in with the sadistic Captain Vidal (Sergi Lopez, Dirty Pretty Things).

Michael (Zach Braff, TV’s Scrubs) has the perfect life: A job he’s good at, his closest childhood friends still by his side, and Jenna (Jacinda Barrett, Poseidon), a girlfriend who’s madly in love with him. But as relationships all around him start crashing down, and the prospect of becoming a real adult—complete with a baby on the way—looms ever nearer, Michael starts having second thoughts about his seemingly perfect life.